One for all those Chefs out there

Linnyloos


Joined: 30/11/2008
Posts: 483

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 11:28

Does anyone have a nice recipe for stuffing for Turkey please?



Would love to try something different this Christmas.



Thanks Linda

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 11:35

Hi Linda



Unfortunately, I do not have a nice recipe for you.



However, if I were the wife of the man who lost the 13 million pound lottery ticket, I know what I'D be using



J

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 11:41

ooops - sorry, should have read £113 million.

Linnyloos


Joined: 30/11/2008
Posts: 483

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 12:48

Lol. So would I Jeannie but I really do want a recipe. Reading my post through again I suppose I could have rephrased it better

auriga


Joined: 26/08/2010
Posts: 35

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 14:52

Is that true the owner has lost his £113 million lottery ticket? i have not read that anywhere. Oh dear i realise i have gone off thread, please forgive me,not good seeing it is my first time on the board, wife of Auriga.

PaulW



Joined: 20/07/2009
Posts: 651

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 15:03

Stuffing ingredients

1 tablespoon unsalted butter

6 rashers good-quality bacon, sliced into thin strips

3 shallots, peeled and finely chopped

2 sticks of celery, trimmed and finely chopped

a sprig of fresh rosemary, leaves picked and chopped

a large handful of dried cranberries

400ml dry cider

½ teaspoon ground nutmeg

½ teaspoon ground allspice

sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

handful of chopped walnuts

zest of 1 orange

300g good-quality pork sausage meat

1 egg, free-range or organic

2 big handfuls of breadcrumbs



Cont

PaulW



Joined: 20/07/2009
Posts: 651

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 15:03

Method

To make the stuffing, melt the unsalted butter in a saucepan and add the bacon, shallots, celery and rosemary. Cook gently with the lid on for about 10 minutes, until the vegetables are very soft, but not coloured. Add the cranberries and the cider and turn up the heat a little. When the liquid has reduced to a third of its volume, set it aside to cool. Mix in the nutmeg, allspice, some salt and pepper, the walnuts, orange zest, sausage ment and egg, then fold in the breadcrumbs.

Then stuff the bird

LaptaMike


Joined: 07/10/2009
Posts: 1679

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 15:12

here's my recipe, quite a simple but tasty one



coarsley chopped bread crumbs

sausage meat

sprinkling of sage

1 egg

chopped (and shelled) roast chestnuts

generous sprinkling of sage

1 chopped onion

salt and pepper



mix all together. Stuff in the turkey or make into golf size balls

marcosthechef



Joined: 30/11/2009
Posts: 646

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 15:38

Blimey, well I dont think I can post my recipe now after those two guys, well done fellas, Marcos the chef is well impressed



PaulW consider your recipe well and truly nicked, I may even put it on my blog ( with a PaulW credit of course, assuming its not a Jamie or Delia, nicked by you !! lol)

Linnyloos


Joined: 30/11/2008
Posts: 483

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 16:30

Thanks everyone. Will try both from PaulW (sounds lovely) and LaptaMike x

yenibob


Joined: 13/10/2010
Posts: 1203

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 16:33

a search of the web will produce 100s, but then you wouldn't get your andy warhol moment.

LaptaMike


Joined: 07/10/2009
Posts: 1679

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 16:40

I normally stuff my turkey with 2 different stuffings and do stuffing balls aswell (different flavour to the ones in the turkey).



PS I must be going senile, I said sprinkling of sage twice.

PaulW



Joined: 20/07/2009
Posts: 651

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 18:35

Message 9. Marcos it was a Jamie but I have adapted it to suit the way I cook turkey.

Paul

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 18:47

I'm very good at stuffing birds!



Richard

LaptaMike


Joined: 07/10/2009
Posts: 1679

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 18:54

PaulW, might give yours a go but it sounds almost like a recipe for christmas pud ;-)

Pugwash


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 1797

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 18:55

I do an apricot stuffing that is very nice especially with chicken and turkey,



Apricot Stuffing

1 Onion

1 stalk Celery

1 Tbsp. Olive oil

1 Tbsp. Thyme Fresh is poss

1 Tbsp. Parsley Fresh if poss

1 Tbsp. Sage

2 cloves minced garlic

1 Egg

1 cup dried Apricots

2-½ cups crumbled stale bread

1-½ cups chicken stock or vegetable stock



In a pan, saute the chopped onions and celery with 2 Tbsp olive oil. Cook until the vegetables are translucent. In a large bowl, mix sauted vegetables, chopped garlic, chopped apricots, thyme, parsley, sage, and bread. In a small bowl, whisk together the egg and the stock, then pour over the stuffing and mix. Pour mixture into a greased casserole dish, and bake at 375 degrees. Check it is not too wet, if so add more breadcrumbs. Cook for 45 minutes or until the center is hot, or stuff your Chicken/Turkey.

PaulW



Joined: 20/07/2009
Posts: 651

Message Posted:
21/10/2010 00:50

Message 15, Mike I have a really good receipe for Christmas pudding if you want it. It is individual puddings that are light and quite easy to make, but have the wow factor, everyone says to me wow I'm surprised you made these

Tomorrow mince pies with a difference!

Linnyloos


Joined: 30/11/2008
Posts: 483

Message Posted:
21/10/2010 00:52

Mmmm. Love mince pies.

PaulW



Joined: 20/07/2009
Posts: 651

Message Posted:
21/10/2010 01:04

Linda, message 18, I will e-mail you the receipe, they are slightly different but very nice, but not tonight perhaps tomorrow, it's to late.

Paul

Jean is getting the hump that I'm giving all my kitchen secrets away, don't ask about the pate.

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
21/10/2010 01:12

Paul

Got you (joke)............. 'it's to late' (sic). Should be, 'too late'!



Richard

PaulW



Joined: 20/07/2009
Posts: 651

Message Posted:
21/10/2010 01:23

Richard

Yes you did........ but that is because it is too late........... Jean will pick me up on that in the morning



Paul

Turbo


Joined: 24/12/2006
Posts: 833

Message Posted:
21/10/2010 04:48

message 8, very similar to my recipe, the only difference, I chop the liver and pull off some of the neck meat and mix that in too.

Turbo


Joined: 24/12/2006
Posts: 833

Message Posted:
21/10/2010 06:04

I forgot to add, I make gravy stock using the giblets, liver (cook only for about 15 minutes or it gets bitter), neck, then take them out and use them in the stuffing.

tsmlion


Joined: 17/08/2009
Posts: 39

Message Posted:
21/10/2010 13:23

"Does anyone have a nice recipe for stuffing for Turkey please? "



Vote against the UN plan, join the EU and then block Turkey's progress with Europe ad infinitum ......

Elliecy


Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 153

Message Posted:
21/10/2010 13:43

All the recipes sound lovely, but I think I'll certainly give the PaulW one a try! Also, what about roast duck, any suggestions anyone?

Linnyloos


Joined: 30/11/2008
Posts: 483

Message Posted:
21/10/2010 13:56

Looking forward to the Pate recipe PaulW. Whilst on the subject, if anyone has a nice one for Chicken Liver Pate I'd be very grateful x

PaulW



Joined: 20/07/2009
Posts: 651

Message Posted:
21/10/2010 14:20

Quick and easy Christmas puddings:-

150g self-raising flour, 1 level teaspoon of baking powder,1 rounded teaspoon of ground mixed spice, 50 g softened butter, 2 eggs, 75ml black treacle,110ml guinness, 2 tablespoons of dark rum you can miss this out if you don't have any,a jar of luxury mincemeat, 75g Bramley or any cooking apple cored peeled and finely diced, 175g of currents,25g of chopped roasted hazelnuts, the grated rind of a lemon and an orange, 8 metal or foil individual pudding basins, greasproof paper and foil.

yenibob


Joined: 13/10/2010
Posts: 1203

Message Posted:
21/10/2010 14:40

FFS have you all gone mad, life is too short to stuff an olive and it is definitely too short to prat about making your own Christmas pudding.

WTF is wrong with M&S...........2million customers can't be wrong.

PaulW



Joined: 20/07/2009
Posts: 651

Message Posted:
21/10/2010 14:54

Don't do a lot of cooking then Bob